Anonymous wrote:I get it- we are in New England and winter sucks big time. But makes me sad to think he will be far away and a long drive or flight. But he is adamant that he doesn't want to be anywhere where there is cold and snow during a typical winter. He also wants a completely different experience from his white, UMC high school which he will def get at the schools he is considering.

Very smart DS!

The racism comments here are valid but I can’t help but remember how shocking it was to discover the rampant racism in Boston when I was there for college/work in 80’s/90’s (coming from DC). The south is awful but there’s also some denial in these jabs from northeasterners .

OP - my child also wants to go warmer places. They are ok with experiencing places/people that are not as liberal as our own community. Most college campuses are quite liberal and going elsewhere is a good learning experience. Hopefully they can choose a place with a direct flight option and not far from the airport so that the distance won’t be too bad. They are not considering TX though and not so many in South - they are fully aware of abortion laws and, who knows, maybe that will be a deciding factor once they know their options in Spring.

Ah, yes, all those falsely accused boys /s

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Anonymous wrote: I am absolutely making abortion access a factor on where my DD goes to college.

If this is truly a factor in where your DD goes to college, then you have raised her with the morals of an alley cat. Sorry, but that's the truth.

Any idea how many girls are raped in college?

Any idea how many girls falsely accuse boys of raping them in college?

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s revisit when the CDS data for this year & subsequent years reveals whether or not application
numbers actually decrease for Rice, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, , Dartmouth, WashU, Emory, DCUM fave UW-Madison, & Duke I’m skeptical.

Next year will be interesting. The report from this fall is that every Texas school under-estimated yield and is over-enrolled, even schools with a significant number of OOS students. My DC’s Texas college has had to put beds in the lounge areas.

If they pro choice hope they register to vote and help change the horrible situation current slamming texas women right now.

Anonymous wrote:Let’s revisit when the CDS data for this year & subsequent years reveals whether or not application
numbers actually decrease for Rice, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, , Dartmouth, WashU, Emory, DCUM fave UW-Madison, & Duke I’m skeptical.

Next year will be interesting. The report from this fall is that every Texas school under-estimated yield and is over-enrolled, even schools with a significant number of OOS students. My DC’s Texas college has had to put beds in the lounge areas.

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Anonymous wrote: On the practical/financial side, one of my kids was a 7 hour drive away from home. Short school breaks (4 days or less), he could not come home.

I went to school an 8 hour drive from home. I went home for Thanksgiving, winter break, spring break and summer. Not too many people went home on weekends anyway.

+1. Same. 8 hour drive or 1.5 hr direct flight from home and I went home for thanksgiving, Christmas break, spring break, and of course summer. however, admittedly flying and driving/gas prices were both much cheaper back then—early 2000s. I could usually fly home round trip for under $100 which wouldn’t be possible anymore. I usually drove anyway to have more flexibility on when I left/returned and so I’d have a car at home once I got there.

I had friends who would stay with us for Thanksgiving break instead of going home. They only went home at Christmas and for summer. Usually stayed with friends at their houses for Thanksgiving and spring break.

Hopefully he’s smart enough to stay away from CA

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Anonymous wrote: I am absolutely making abortion access a factor on where my DD goes to college.

If this is truly a factor in where your DD goes to college, then you have raised her with the morals of an alley cat. Sorry, but that's the truth.

Any idea how many girls are raped in college?

Anonymous wrote:No Vandy, then.

It will be interesting to see how this all impacts applications, if at all.

Did Vandy move? It was in the south when I went there.

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Anonymous wrote:Californians are moving to Texas in droves. Its only a matter of time they'll make it ultra liberal and go bankrupt.

It’s already happened in Austin.

Austin is bankrupt?

I have heard rumors of Transplants trying to leave again

We can only hope.

How have the transplants you other than increasing the value of your home? Oh, not at all because you don’t even live there. Got it.

You are correct that I don’t live in Austin. I’m someone who is from there and and had planned to move back until I saw what the population boom had done to the city. Crowded (now you have to get reservations to go to my favorite old swimming hole!), construction everywhere, in addition to HCOL & being overrun with homeless people? No thanks. If I wanted all that I would have stayed in DC. We moved to another location that was similar to what Austin used to be, and now it’s in the midst of a building boom. For all of those “threatening” not to move to a Red state — trust me, anyone in Texas or the South will see the slowdown in in-migration as a blessing. (Oh, and it’s not because the new people are voting “blue.” To the contrary, the voter registration numbers show that the imports are registering R in large numbers.)

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Anonymous wrote:He should prepare for gender imbalances - many young women from women free states are not applying to colleges in states where their basic human rights to control their own bodies is being denied.

Hmmmm... are they? Do you have data to back this up? Or is this just among your small friend group.

I’m liberal and live in California and agree. I have not heard from any kids in my senior’s class that this is a deciding factor.

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Anonymous wrote:Californians are moving to Texas in droves. Its only a matter of time they'll make it ultra liberal and go bankrupt.

It’s already happened in Austin.

Austin is bankrupt?

I have heard rumors of Transplants trying to leave again

We can only hope.

How have the transplants you other than increasing the value of your home? Oh, not at all because you don’t even live there. Got it.

Let’s revisit when the CDS data for this year & subsequent years reveals whether or not application
numbers actually decrease for Rice, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, , Dartmouth, WashU, Emory, DCUM fave UW-Madison, & Duke I’m skeptical.